tensions flare in syria as a u.s. military patrol is drawn into a violent standoff near the northeastern city of. turkey threatens to launch an operation against the bashar assad's forces in. the u.n. human rights office identifies over 100 companies which it says are supporting illegal settlements in the west bank provoking. as the b.b.c. faces threats from government cuts its chairman audits the growing influence of countries like russia and china in the media. and as the german city of dresden commemorates 75 years since the 2nd world war pain which left an estimated 25000

dead speak to a man who narrowly escaped the firestorm. parents rushed outside and took nothing with others went back and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating. from moscow thanks for joining us here in our international daniel hawkins welcome to the program. of violence broke out between an american military convoy and an armed group of individuals near the northeastern syrian city of commercially that was on wednesday one person was left dead state run media in the country say the victim was a civilian that's a claim the u.s. has this fighting erupted when a u.s. convoy changed its usual patrol route and was held up at a checkpoint. good

luck. to them i go. and residents pelted the vehicles with stones as they attempted to pass through the checkpoint according to syrian state media the american patrol then opened fire in retaliation a u.s. military spokesman said however the convoy was responding to small arms fire russian military police later arrived on the scene to mediate tensions also rose dramatically in northwestern syria on wednesday assault of a turkish leader threatened to military action against president assad's forces in a more of that his arteries were against the. rebels and the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span of a little over a month they've lost a 3rd of their territory so you will understand why turkey which said which paid armed and trained those rebels is outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to

vent the shrike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran by militants. continuously attacking civilians committing massacres on a kurd in syria might find strange of the guns concerned for civilian casualties but russia took those accusations seriously pointing out rebels had launched ceaseless drone attacks on the russian base violated this ceasefire again and again and again al-qaeda linked jihad this control 90 percent of it and who turkey despite promising to do so hadn't been able to separate from moderate rebels the statements made by turkish representatives about alleged russian military attacks on civilians in the edward discolorations zone are for. false the real reason for the crisis and ad lib unfortunately is that our turkish colleagues have failed to

fulfill their obligations to separate the moderate opposition militants from the terrorists in these areas but every gun appears death ended mute to his own faults instead of explanation he's flooding it with troops with tanks with artillery vowing lesion for anyone who dares shoot at them. she was very strong we determined to drive back syrian regime forces from our observation posts by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary on the ground and in the air without any hesitation and without any delay and egging it all on is washington apparently they've forgiven ever the gun for his little crusade against syrian kurds and have lifted their sanctions on turkish officials involved in attacking kurds they went further saying they stand with their god as he invades a sovereign state my condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in

yesterday's attack in the ongoing assaults by the assad regime and russia must stop i've sent jim jeffrey to ankara to coordinate steps to respond to this destabilizing attack we stand by our nato ally there are now 4 nuclear powers engaged in syria 5 if you count israel and they're fighting on different sides the danger of escalation is colossal and happened when the american convoy drove into a village where they weren't welcome. this is the move in which the americans came in and faced resistance from the villages people who threw stones at them so they answered with bullets young man was cute and 2 the pentagon in a statement referred to the villages as a pro acid militia and accuse the villagers of occupying the village they live in also the american soldier who apparently scratched himself as 5 no need to worry

they literally separately tweeted about that so there you go an ugly day in our glee war and as things stand liable to get a whole lot uglier still. getting some believe 30 should be doing more to deescalate the conflict as opposed to making the situation worse. turkey has not upheld its obligations not on the saatchi agreement but also on the astonished agreement on the saatchi agreement the deescalation zones are not going to work if turkey doesn't. maintain its side of the bargain and in order to separate the militants supposedly from the regular moderate rebels we know in reality that there is no difference really between those 2 so that part of the agreement is neither here nor there but the because of this there's no way to have the escalation zones on the agreement. if you remember back in the fall of 20 teen there were a number of things agreed and one of the key things was that turkey would assist in

the liberation of the international road to damascus to aleppo road or the the m 5 highway to turkey has never done that and the reason none of these agreements are working is because actually turkey appears to be pursuing a parallel agenda and as long as it's doing that there's no way that they're going to meet those obligations and therefore the situation will become dysfunctional very quickly. the u.n. human rights office has released the report identifies 112 companies which it says are supporting illegal settlements in the west bank the findings have come in for sharp criticism from israel though it's called the document shameful and suspended ties with the body. of a boy good will be boycotted to the human rose is a buzz body that is devoid of influence the state of israel will not tolerate this discriminatory anti israeli policy and will take action to prevent the

implementation of these kinds of decisions the united nations was referring to the israeli settlements that are constructed in the west bank post the 19676 day war these are the 121 officially recognized settlements house around half a 1000000 israeli settlers and these places are for places of worship homes and businesses that serve the region for the israelis this list included 112 companies operating in these settlements they included some international companies such as moral solutions however they also included mostly israeli banks however some american companies like trip advisor and air b.n. b. were also mentioned in the list however of the united nations list does not state that these companies are practicing any illegal activity over that they are only being listed because they are operating within the israeli settlements it's important to note that it is not some claim a blacklist nor does it qualify any company's activities as illegal that would be

a separate and highly complicated terminations training mission highlighted 10 types of business activities it viewed as being of particular concern given the well established legal nature of the settlements in the occupied palestinian territory the palestinians welcomed the the united nations list that arrived from the human rights council calling it a welcome. diplomatic victory sign of the palestinians diplomatic efforts in the international community to confront israel publishing this list of companies and entities operating in the settlements is a victory for international law and diplomatic efforts the american administration and out of the deal of the century palestinians call this deal or this piece of ring pro israel agreement that gave nothing to the palestinians and gave everything towards the israelis this has actually created more tensions between the palestinian authority and the israeli government with these tensions also

escalating into live protests on the ground and tensions are only rising in the days to come and that is the national director of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in south africa a new report would encourage businesses to end their support for the west bank settlements but as a boycott divestment and sanctions movement we see this as a great as a great positive step in the right direction for holding israel accountable for its violations of international law it has taken the b.d.s. boycott off is the deal just over 15 years to get to the stage and so we do you do hope that this nonviolent boycott movement can have an effect on the israeli government in an attempt to bring israel to the negotiating table similar to how a party that africa was brought to the negotiating table big business is like a b. and b. bookings dot com trip advisor invidious others should be on the right side of history and should in this complicity with the is that a violation of international law. the chairman of the b.b.c.

has warned against funding cuts the britain's national broadcaster saying it would help russia and china spread their influence the b.b.c. is set to lose 200000000 pounds over the next 2 years as its license fees reviewed by the government with an idea to possibly switch to a voluntary subscription system. that he told. it would appear that every time the b.b.c. are faced with these types of challenges they come out fighting although this time it seems they're resorting to scare tactics in order to ward off any threat to their state funding and this. unsurprisingly they've taken a at russia and china the b.b.c.'s mean competitors or the world funded state backed actors of russia and china who see news as an extension of state influence and its tool for democratic disruption very easy of course always to raise the specter of nefarious states abroad trying to infiltrate and influence politics here

of course the b.b.c. never engaging in that type of behavior but the chairman of the b.b.c. also going on to sing the praises of his organization and what he says is their commitment to impartiality as a public service broadcaster not a state broadcaster it has been a beacon of journalistic impartiality and a lifeline for millions living in fear uncertainty and captivity worldwide while perhaps the few shared by the chairman is not the same as that shared by many people in the u.k. i mean for a start the b.b.c.'s embroiled in a number of its own difficulties and scandals in regards to for example sexism and racism in how it treats staff and how it deals with pay between men and women for example but also it seems to be a politicizing of their programming with the very popular victoria darva show being axed in the last few months that led to accusations that the government was trying

to interfere with their output but also accusations from all sides of the political spectrum seen on the right accusations towards the b.b.c. that they're somehow against briggs it but even more so and perhaps with a lot of evidence behind it according to those who make this claim that the b.b.c. showed a very. and dermie corben bias especially in the run up to the election the beginning of that to somebody last year and so it would appear that while the chairman of the b.b.c. wants to defend and sing the praises of the organization and say that this is a vital institution in this country there are rapidly running out of supporters in the country who are willing to come to their defense of having an earlier spoke to a journalist neil clark about the challenges confronting the broadcaster on what the proposed changes might mean this whole license thing is a piece of history and the b.b.c. these to up its game do you agree with that it is a great institution i think the problem has been really in the last i would say 10

years or so it's been with its political programming i think that that's where a lot of discontent lies we heard easterly talking there about people believing or thinking with not without any evidence that the that there were a lot of bias but sample against europe we called it now we're hearing today b.b.c. saying propaganda from the likes of china from the likes of russia are they really that important is it such a problem you know i think the funding so i don't know about the chinese or c.c.t.v. funding but i know from reading articles or reports that in fact the b.b.c. as a whole gets more funding than r.t. gets so i think that's a bit of a red herring so to speak i think it's sad that he's felt that charity sort of likes to make that comment to get russia because it really is and should really be about that it should really be about do we need a public sector broadcaster i think we do and how is that public sector broadcaster funded what he should be saying i think is look the b.b.c.

has got a very long history. 80 odd years history of producing good programs we've done it down the years please keep the funding. u.s. representative warns of cyber threats from russia while the media expose yet another. german intelligence years ago. maximizers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause report. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made

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every nation has been targeted by russia or china in cyberspace what in the world that it must strengthen its files against moscow and beijing that said a reports reveal the cia and its german counterpart rigged swiss made encryption machines back in the 1970s allowing them to spawn embassies and government is the solution in 120 different countries quarter has this report. the washington post is calling it the intelligence coup of the century the cia working with west german secret services pulling the strings of a swiss and christian company and stealing government secrets from over 120 countries foreign governments were paying good money to the us and was germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least 2 foreign countries it was a foolproof operation 1st called the saurus and later renamed rubicon for over half a century of the company crypto a.g.d. was a captain of the world's encryption industry based in neutral switzerland most governments

were quick to believe their secrets were in safe hands little did they know the cia and west germany b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1988 western spies had complete access to the egyptian president's communications with cairo during the camp david peace talks with israel a year later washington was spying on a rainy and officials during the hostage crisis and as late as 1986 u.s. intelligence was listening to libyan officials congratulate each other for the bombing of a berlin disco although the c.i. a and b. and d. weren't able to hook their main rivals russia and china had enough foresight to look elsewhere for their encryption needs nowadays though those 2 are the scapegoats for all of the west's cyber woes if you see throughout our alliance every one of our countries has had side by and hybrid attacks from russia some from

china for washington it's become a routine to point the finger at russia and china but it's not like u.s. intelligence operations have wound down since then on the contrary they've adapted . edward snowden is the 29 year old intelligence contractor who leaked top secret national security agency information revealing the incredible extent to which the u.s. government is monitoring and keeping records of not just our phone calls the national security agency has developed has built an infrastructure they could intercept almost everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data the group by president obama who is reviewing the

washington spying program has largely defended it although the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was still vital to homeland security. the central intelligence agency has lost control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out tracking into electronic devices things like android phones only for julian assange and london accusing the cia of devastating incompetence saying the agency has lost control of its cyber weapons it doesn't matter who you are friend or foe they're coming for your secrets. i have since we started talking about then and see always made it clear to the u.s. president that spying among friends is not acceptable and if you take wiki leaks vault 7 documents into consideration it makes operation rubicon look like child's

play the scope and direction of the cia's global covert hacking program its malware arsenal and dozens of 0 day weaponized exploits against a wide range of u.s. and european company products include apple's i phone google's android and microsoft's windows and even samsung t.v.'s which are turned into covert. microphone's even their own citizens aren't safe now increasingly we see that it's happening domestically and to do that they the n.s.a. specifically targets the communications of everyone in just some by default it collects them in its system and it filters them into tantalizes them and measures them and stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends snowden took the revelations about crypto eiji even further comparing it with a formerly secret $10000000.00 contract between the n.s.a. and a major u.s.

computer security firm it begs the question what info grabbing operations are still going on right now under our noses given the passage of time a former cia analyst on whistle blow john kiriakou doesn't expect anyone to come clean over the reported operation anytime soon. i can only speculate but we have a mandatory declassification law in this country where if information is at least 30 years old and it is not operational in nature that is it doesn't include information related to sources and methods that it has to be declassified and i wonder if that's really what this is all about that the information is old enough that that there's no reason to keep it classified anymore the the u.s. has interfered in more elections around the world then any other country in the world and i wouldn't be surprised if it was more than all other countries in the

world combined this is something they that the u.s. does routinely regularly this may at least temporarily serve to take the attention off of russia off of china and other countries because this is something the united states does all the time not only will will there be no criminal repercussions i would not at all be surprised if those responsible for this operation who are still in the cia or n.s.a. are not given medals for what they ought. to some a day of the german city of dresden as it commemorates the victims of a mass coppock going campaign it's estimated 225000 civilians died in the rights not by the british and american air forces 75 years ago to the day since then the intensity of the structure and dress than half and called into question as the 2nd world war neared its and.

everything around turned into how i see a woman in her hands is a bomb it's a child she runs. and for once the child disappears into the plains.

well we heard the story of a man whose parents had the foresight to take him out of dresden shortly before the bombing began and lo he was 5 years old at the time he still has some recollections of what his family went through. the bombing started and the house was on fire parents rushed outside in took nothing with them others went back to their flats and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating it was a simple struggle for survival after the attack no more no less for weeks afterwards the corpses were burned at the old market my father had to help there to from february to the beginning of may they started to clear some rubble and burned the bodies there were $6.00 to $7000.00 corpses burned at the old market 200 meters

from here there are pictures of this there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed it was chaos because there were also many refugees from poland and east prussia that's why you don't know how many in fact died because there were so many unregistered people here who were burned the corpses could not be identified. with it historian michael jones says the bombing raids in dresden lacked precision and were carried out on an excessive scale. well that's always been a controversial of and right from the bombing itself on the 13th of february $945.00 dresden was a very beautiful city it was a cultural city so the question was was it really necessary there was a lot of destruction i think it was excessive and with hindsight it would have been much better for a number of reasons if the bombing raids had been more targets unless thunderous

had been you i think the scale of the station was unnecessary and very regrettable. next building deeper into the krona virus outbreak and other reports to come on what's in the hoax. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in 2040 you know bloody revolution through to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know or here i mean your list put pretty with the

neighbor loses out on the school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took boat invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. the holder doctrine eric holder former attorney general under obama this is the idea that banks are systemically important they can't be processed because this would be a danger to the society as a whole but what's remarkable is that this idea has bled over into other industries so now boeing has a major scandal on its hands and it's claiming that a systemic lay important the law doesn't apply to us other agricultural companies are saying now we're systemically important we're above the law that is leading to bionic kleptocracy this becoming a i think it's a caca stock or c.

is the right word it's ruled by the least qualified are now in charge of running the economy and results obviously come. stop and. greetings and sal you take a shim as we enter into the early part of 2020 the word pandemic is now trending this of course is all thanks to the corona virus the latest iteration of one of mankind's oldest and greatest foes but is the 21st century version of us truly ready to deal with a potentially dangerous pandemic well definitely now in the viruses name sounds

like a bad gobble san lucas hangover no but thankfully the corona virus has now been officially remained coded maintained by the world health organization which officially stands for wait for it the corona virus disease that was discovered in 2019 yes kind of obvious now that is pretty to the point generic virus name but that thankfully doesn't unfairly stigma stigmatized the people in the region that it was discovered in which is happened before i'm looking at you mers or rather the folks that named you mers middle east respiratory illness but tragically that kind of smart thinking displayed in the renaming of the coronavirus has not bled into a lot of the news coverage and political reactions to the discovery of the disease which is now infected approximately $40000.00 and taken a little over a 1000 souls as katie.